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words cz"ie like a dish of fresli cold water in Eleanor's face. She awoke out of her spell and smiled at the Tempter. "Tomorrow night's all right," she said. '.'But I gotta get home now, you're right. Need my beauty -sleep. Let's beat it for the house." "Ta ta, kiddo," said the Tempter as he left her at the steps without offering to kiss her good night: "see you in" the store in the morning." That was the first of many times they were together. The' Tempter was a good spender for a chap with little money, and, though he was not in the taxicab class, they went ta amusement parks and on steamer rides and to vaudeville and moving picture shows, and Eleanor was much hugged and kissed, and liked it and fell in love with the Tempter, who never in all that time said to her a word which was wrong, though he did say plenty that were foolish. Until "Kiddo," said the Tempter after a month of this, "I'm getting tired of bein' a good fellow for nothin'. All my roll has gone on you, and what do I get out of it? A few kisses and a hug or two and the chance to stick around with you for a few hours now and then. It ain't enough. I'm through, unless " - "Unless wh-what?" trembled Elea nor. She had forgotten, m the weeks that had passed, all about Tempta tion. She loved the -Tempter and had come to trust him, and now the castles which she had built were crumbling about" her. "Unless," the Tempter was say ing, "unless you'll be sensible. Eve got a bully little flat all fixed up. Me and, another fellow have been livin' in it, but he s got married now. We .can be mighty quiet about it so the boss won't get wise and fire us. Aft er a while I got another job comin' up where they aren't sopafticular." "So you want me to come and live in'the flat instead of him?" Eleanor said, lier mouth quivering. "Sure, but I don't see why you're so sad about it. We'll have a great time. What do you suppose I've been rushin' you all this while for, just to spend my money?" the Tempter ask ed with a grin an evil grin, Eleanor thought. "I I didn't know," she faltered, "I thought maybe you you wanted to m-m-marry me." "Marry you!" shoutedthe Tempt er, who wasn't a Tempter at all, "of course I want to marry you. What do you think I'm trying to do, hire a housekeeper?" "I I thought" J He had a sudden thought. "Girlie," he said, "would you have come without any wedding?" "I I oh, you'll hate me if I tell you," she cried. "Little girl," he said, and his voice was very tender, "I see that you Would. Some guys might be sore, but it makes me happy to know you think enough of me so you'd come anyhow. That means some love, girlie, and I know it. But you're going to come all proper and right" Eleanor nodded. "Billy," she asked, "what was the row you had with the landlady?" "Why, I took one of the boys out with me one night from there and he got drunk. It wasfi't anything really my fault, girlie. "And while I'm at it let me put you wise to something. This city ain't so bad as a good many of these story r writers paint it. Most of us guys " come from little towns like yours, and we don't change an awful lot. There's plenty of bad ones here, but the most of the city push is fellows that works hard and goes to bed early and finds a girl and gets mar ried. Shall I 'cop the license tomor row?" "Sure," said' Eleanor. (The End.) o o There are more than 60,000 dark windowless rooms in New York city alone. Eug'enists please note. 'fll i